Restaurant and Skills Kitchens

Origins Restaurant

Origins is a contemporary, commercially run and licensed restaurant at Shrewsbury College. Origins restaurant gives students the opportunity to work in a professional environment, stay in touch with industry trends and have their culinary expertise recognised at national competitions.

Led by qualified, experienced chefs and front of house professionals, students learn about the principles of cookery, compatibility of flavours, food service and complementary wines. The restaurant menu represents amazing value for money and reflects the fact that food is prepared and served by students who are overseen by chef lecturers.

Theme nights and events featuring music, drama and world cuisine feature in its calendar and there is plenty of free parking.

Origins seats 82 or can take 120 standing. The restaurant can be hired for business breakfast meetings, lunch, dinner, charity events, gala dinners, weddings, funerals or other similar events.

Di Le Gallia-Pound, said:

“Origins hosted our wedding reception and it was a fantastic occasion from start to finish. The commercial manager was a delight to work with, closely communicating with us throughout the preparations and determined to make our special day everything we wanted it to be - even down to the flowers and decorations. We even had a disco for the evening, which went down very well with our guests! The whole day ran like clockwork and nothing was too much trouble for the staff and the food was absolutely delicious, using fresh ingredients throughout and catering for those with food allergies. Thanks for a truly memorable occasion. .”

Skills Kitchens

The College offers two new industry-standard commercial training kitchens for hire. If you are a business or organisation looking for the perfect facility to train your staff in food production or hygiene, or a catering or cooking business looking for a place to hold workshops or seminars - our two, large training kitchens with state-of-the-art workstations and visual technology are available for hire from a few hours, weekends or for longer periods.

Adjoining classroom space available

Fully functioning commercial restaurant space for booking on request

Hospitality available upon request

Ample FREE parking

Hatchers Solicitors LLP used the kitchens for ‘The Great Shropshire Business Bake off’, they said::

“We arranged for 18 business teams to take part in a charity event in the Skills Kitchens and we found the event easy to organise and the facilities perfect for everyone to enjoy the challenge and have a go at baking. After the baking rounds we moved downstairs to Origins Restaurant for the judging and evening reception. It was a great day for everyone and I was thrilled with the service at Shrewsbury College.”

For more details on hiring Origins or a kitchen, including times and prices, please contact Ted Coxon on 01743 342537 or email stewartc@shrewsbury.ac.uk